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<h2>Welcome to Fontmatrix help system</h2>

<p>Fontmatrix is an end-user font manager initially designed for Linux, but now 
also available for Windows and Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X.</p>

<p>Its highlights are:</p>

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<li>works with local and remote font storages;</li>
<li>features activation and deactivation of fonts based on tags;</li>
<li>allows finding suitable fonts by constructing simple or complex queries;</li>
<li>allows refining a fonts selection by comparing either glyphs in details or text lines;</li>
<li>supports searching in PANOSE metadata and allows non-destructively editing it;</li>
<li>has advanced OpenType support;</li>
<li>ships with sample texts in gazillion of languages and scripts to assist testing fonts with wide Unicode blocks coverage;</li>
<li>features easy templates based creation of font books (PDF).</li>
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<p>If you have already used an earlier version of Fontmatrix, you might be 
interested to find out, <a href="news.html">what's new in this version</a>.
</p>

<p>If this is the first time you ever run a font manager and you are wondering 
what it's good for, please read <a href="why_management.html">this 
chapter</a>.</p>

<p>If you are already familiar with font managers per se and know why you want 
using them, you might like to know <a href="why_fontmatrix.html">what's so 
special</a> about Fontmatrix.</p>

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